[Enigmail] Verify Public Key Export

[Faramir]

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Carlos Williams escribió:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Faramir <faramir.cl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is this option not available with more commonly used key servers? I

  I don't know... I have the feeling it is not so common...

> have never heard of this one and don't know how many people really use
> "gingerbear.net".
> The key servers I show listed in my 'OpenPGP Preferences' are:
>
> subkeys.pgp.net, pool.sks-keyservers.net, pgp.mit.edu, ldap://certserver.pgp.com

  There are not dumb questions, just dumbs that don't make questions
(and remains without learning). Ok, maybe there are dumb questions, but
this one is not one of them.

  gingerbear.net is a key server that is part of sks network of servers,
so, if you upload a key to that server, it will send it to the other
servers in that net... And the interesting thing is
pool.sks-keyservers.net is not really a server, it is a "list of
servers", AFAIK, composed by the list of servers in sks network that
pass a test about being communicating properly, and also, having an
almost complete list of the keys in that network (there is some
tolerance). When you upload (or send a request) to pool.sks...,
something select a server in a list, and you send your key (or retrieve
the key you are requesting) from that server. So, maybe, you have used
gingerbear.net a lot of times, without knowing you was using it.

  The idea about pool.sks... is to provide a list of servers that have
been checked to be communicating to each other properly, and that are
known to be "up". If I am not wrong, it also tries to balance the load
of the servers.

  So, send the key to gingerbear.net, if the key arrives, it will send
it to the other servers too.

  By the way, I suggest to use pool.sks... as your preferred "server",
since you can know it will never go down (some of the servers in that
list can go down, but not all at the same time).

  Best Regards
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